Royals Fans Look to Minnesota
And Say, 'Why Not Our Team?'

By

Steve Mckee Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Aug. 7, 2002 10:38 a.m. ET

The Kansas City Royals played a four-game set in Minnesota over the weekend. That would be the 46-67, 4th-place-in-the AL-Central Royals vs. the 69-45, 1st-place-in-the-AL-Central Twins, and Joe Posnanski of the Kansas City Star is, shall we say, more than a bit wistful for what could be in small-market Kansas City but is instead in small-market Minneapolis.

And that would be, of course, a team on its way to October, if there is an October. "If you put a team like the Twins in hungry-for-a-winner Kansas City, the...